Spammers Continue To Be Laughably Dull, Now With AI!

Does this shit actually work? Do people respond to this nonsense? While the quality of the copy in the spray-and-pray deluge has gotten somewhat better (it no longer looks like the Save As HTML output of Word 98) it remains alarmingly stupid for the most part. This one stood out a bit. I got this flood of absolutely stupid crawler activity from what looks like someone's cable modem. Their bots are a bit thick, continually ignoring the "permanently" part of the 301 Moved Permanently response that my webserver sends to requests either lacking HTTPS or the www prefix. This in it of itself isn't exactly shocking. These days most bots are either someone driving a HeadlessChrome instance or some vibe-code level quality pile of hopes and dreams. 98.184.201.201 - - [28/Sep/2026:03:02:15 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 7039 "-" "NewSiteLeadBot/1.0 (+https://newsitelead.com/bot)" 98.184.201.201 - - [28/Sep/2026:03:02:15 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 10296 "-" "NewSiteLeadBot/1.0…

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